Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 16

The painted coats-of-arms on the old council-house shone like transparent pictures, and Michael Angelo's David tossed his sling; it was as if everything had life.

Who acts: painted coats, sling · What happens: paint, shine, toss, be · To what, where: old council house, sling

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (painted coats, sling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coats	det
2	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 coats	amod
3	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tossed	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 arms	punct
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 arms	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 of	punct
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 coats	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	13 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 house	amod
11	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 council	punct
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arms	nmod
14	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 house	acl
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 pictures	case
16	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pictures	amod
17	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shone	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tossed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tossed	cc
20	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 David	nmod:poss
21	Angelo	Angelo	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Michael	flat
22	's	's	PART	_	20 Michael	case
23	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 tossed	nsubj
24	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sling	nmod:poss
26	sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tossed	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 had	cop
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 had	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 had	mark
32	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tossed	conj
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 tossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	paint	participle				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shine	participle		the old council house not said here	like transparent pictures	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	toss	past	the painted coats of arms on the old council house	David's sling		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sling=Patient
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	sling		have property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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